App Of The Week

Starting next week there will be Honeycomb optimized apps for App of the Week. This does not mean that there will be no more apps that work on the Original Galaxy Tab, but there will be some Honeycomb 3.x apps. This is just a fair warning.

So this weeks app is imo, an instant messaging client for several of the most popular messaging services. These services are Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Skype, MSN, ICQ/AIM, Yahoo, Jabber, and Myspace.

Plants vs Zombies has been a long awaited addition to the Android Market, but it is not quite available just yet through that channel. Instead Amazon scored exclusive rights (at least for now) to it. It runs for $2.99 but is currently on sale for $1.49.

This week for App of the Week, we are featuring Flight Control. Flight Control is a simple, addictive, and challenging game. You are in charge of directing planes in an airfield and have to guide the planes, jets, and helicopters to their runways safely without any collisions.

While some aspects of TouchWiz are nice, they leave a good bit to be desired. This is why developer have created dozens (if not hundreds) of Home Screen Replacements/Launchers. The clear front-runner is LauncherPro.

LauncherPro comes in two versions – LauncherPro and LauncherPro Plus. The first is free and the second will cost you $3.49. The most notable difference between the two is the inclusion of LauncherPro widgets. These widgets can do things like display your Emails, Calendar, Twitter Feed, Facebook Feed and more. If you do not see the need for these widgets, then by all means stick with the free version.

Samsung’s default keyboard has always served me well. I was also happy that the innovative keyboard Swype was also included on the Galaxy Tab. Neither of them were entirely perfect. The Android Market has dozens of quality keyboards, but one has finally won my heart, FlexT9.

Pulse News is the single greatest RSS Reader app available for Android. Of course you could use the Google Reader app, but it does not have the same appeal. Besides you can import your Google Reader feeds into Pulse News.

Each feed is separated into rows and shows the latest items on each. If there is a thumbnail available it will be displayed with the title of the post on top of it.